#!/usr/bin/env python # output all but the first N lines of a file # Allen Short and Jp Calderone wrote this coool version: import itertools, sys def main(): K = int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 2: fname = sys.argv[2] inf = open(fname, 'r') else: inf = sys.stdin sys.stdout.writelines(itertools.islice(inf, K, None)) if __name__ == '__main__': main() # thus replacing my dumb version: # # from the Python Standard Library # import sys # # i = K # for l in sys.stdin.readlines(): # if i: # i -= 1 # else: # print l,